The Invisible Doctrine
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  • Published: 11 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781802062700
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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The Invisible Doctrine

The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came To Control Your Life)

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24 Jun 2025
Hardback
18 Jun 2024
EBook
11 Apr 2024
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11 Apr 2024
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A short anatomy of neoliberalism that shatters its founding myths and points the way to an alternative system

We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our relationships and our mental wellbeing; the planet we inhabit – the very air we breathe. So pervasive has it become that, for most people, it has no name. It seems unavoidable, like a natural law.

But trace it back to its roots, and we discover that it is neither inevitable nor immutable. It was conceived, propagated, and then concealed by the powerful few. Our task is to bring it into the light—and to build a new system that is worth fighting for.


Neoliberalism. Do you know what it is?
  • Published: 11 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781802062700
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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About the authors

George Monbiot

George Monbiot is an author, Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner. His best-selling books include Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life and Heat: How We Can Stop the Planet Burning; his latest is Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis. George cowrote the concept album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness with musician Ewan McLennan, and has made a number of viral videos. One of them, adapted from his 2013 TED talk, How Wolves Change Rivers, has been viewed on YouTube over 40 million times. Another, on Natural Climate Solutions, which he co-presented with Greta Thunberg, has been watched over 60 million times.

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